The first testimony is from Ronald Reagan, an evangelist with Church of God (Cleveland, TN). The same as Mary K. Baxter, who published A Divine Revelation of Hell (Whitaker House, 1993). Howard Storm’s book is My Descent Into Death (Harmony, 2005). Storm was a pastor in United Church of Christ from 1992 until 2011, which is surprisingly enough, a mainline liberal denomination. Across the denomination, tolerance of the gay lifestyle seemed to have been a mixed bag, reaching it’s fully gay affirming position in 2011, the year that Storm retired. After his retirement, he continued to travel around and share his Hell experience in these increasingly liberal UCC churches. These testimonies were the precursors to Bill Wiese’s 23 Minutes In Hell (Charisma House, 2006). As far as I understand, Bill is a non-denominational evangelist. Along with the evangelistic ministries of Ray Comfort, Leonard Ravenhill, David Wilkerson, Paul Washer, and Andrew Strom–Wiese’s testimony has had a tremendous impact on my spiritual life. Rawlings’ book is unique in that it’s a collection of visions of Hell by a born again medical doctor. Visions and dreams of Hell have been written about for all of human history. We have a reference to them in Job 33:15-18: “In a dream, in a vision of the night…He may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing…to preserve them from the Pit.” Lengthy visionary accounts of Dante’s Inferno type visions of Hell can be found in Old Testament pseudepigrapha and New Testament apocryphal writings, which were surveyed in Martha Himmelfarb’s Tours of Hell (Fortress Press, 1985), ch. 1. These continued in medieval Europe after the Bible was written: Eileen Gardiner’s Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante (Italica Press, 1989). She compiled a long chronological bibliography here (some are gnostic writings and shouldn’t be taken seriously, but the ones about Catholic saints could be authentic charismatic testimonies). They were also journaled in the Great Awakenings. Such things come from the realm of the spirit, are timeless and eternal, are an interracial and international collective human experience, far exceeding the boundaries of the written word; and we have the most reliable references to them in the pages of the Bible: the divinely inspired, authoritative, inscripturated Word of God to mankind. –J.B.